The Kellogg family photograph album (14cm x 21cm) contains formal studio portraits of men, women, and children taken mostly in Morenci, Michigan, and Wauseon, Ohio, around the mid-1860s. The photographs, comprised of 41 cartes-de-visite and 4 tintypes, show men, women, and children, sometimes photographed in pairs or groups. Some photographers are identified, such as "traveling artist" W. H. Cunningham. Mary McKenzie Stranahan presented the album to Mrs. Reba Kellogg, her daughter, in Wauseon, Ohio, on June 5, 1865. The brown leather cover has a tooled geometric design, and the title "Album" is stamped in gold on the spine.
Reba Ann Stranahan was born in Litchfield, Ohio, on October 16, 1846, the daughter of Samuel Stranahan and Mary McKenzie. She and her husband, James Clinton Kellogg (November 11, 1842-November 11, 1922), married on February 13, 1865, and had six children: Edward Clinton, John Dean, Frederick Albert, Mary Rugine, Reba Caroline, and Harvey Stranahan. The Kellogg family lived in northern Ohio and southern Michigan. Reba Stranahan Kellogg died on February 11, 1918. James Clinton Kellogg was a very distant relative of Will Keith and John Harvey Kellogg of the Kellogg's cereal company.
